Loft is one of the most popular styles in interior design today. It looks appropriate in private homes, office premises, public institutions such as cafes, restaurants, modern hotels, as well as in the most ordinary apartments. Moreover, when designing apartments, the use of loft is no less versatile - the entire apartment as well as individual rooms can be designed in the loft style. However, some decorative elements that are appropriate for this style cost a lot of money, and those who are trying to fit into a more or less budget option have a completely appropriate question - “how to make loft-style furniture with your own hands?”
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Actually, it's not that difficult. Especially if this is not the first time you have “created beautiful things” with your own hands. But it should be taken into account that the furniture should complement the overall interior, make accents and advantageously emphasize the overall style of the apartment. Therefore, before you start making it, carefully consider for yourself how the overall interior will look, what color scheme will prevail, what the nature and purpose of the room itself is, and of course, determine for yourself the acceptable budget that you are willing to allocate for repair.
mirror surfaces in the hallway interior
We delimit space: how to place accents?
The white loft in the interior is quite original - pastel colors soften the excessive expressiveness of the decor, and it becomes light and airy
As mentioned above, a characteristic feature of the industrial style is a spacious, single room, divided into zones. With the help of pieces of furniture, light screens, and carpets on the floor, we highlight boundaries.
A beautiful bar counter with a tabletop made of a single piece of wood or stone will help separate the kitchen from the dining room. An open shelving will visually hide the bedroom from the living room. The loft is attractive because it combines old and new, luxury with the ugliness of unplastered walls.
The loft style implies the use of furniture not only for its intended purpose, but also to separate one functional area from another
Furniture plays an important role in this design. With its help, accents are placed. When playing with style, there is no need to rush to purchase designer furnishings. You can make them with your own hands, because its essence lies in the fact that the furnishings should first of all be functional, and only then beautiful.
Homemade wooden nightstand for a loft-style bedroom
Coffee table
Required materials and tools:
- wooden pallet;
- screws;
- drill;
- sanding machine or sandpaper;
- stain;
- polyurethane varnish;
- brush;
- table legs;
- saw.
First, cut off part of the pallet based on the desired size of the table.
We remove excess boards from one side of the workpiece.
We attach boards to the sides of the table.
We supplement the outer part of the table with boards so that there is a flat surface.
Carefully attach the legs to each side of the table.
We process the surface of the table with sandpaper or a grinding machine. This is necessary in order to get rid of roughness and irregularities. Only after this we apply the stain and leave the table for several hours. Apply varnish to the entire surface and leave until completely dry.
A beautiful loft-style table is ready!
Materials required for making furniture
When we have decided on the style of the house, thought through the color scheme and the interior as a whole, we choose furnishings that highlight it. It is not at all necessary that all products be made to order or purchased. You can make a couple of items yourself, using literally everything you have on hand. These could be pipes, old boards, concrete elements.
The most favorite materials used in this direction are the following.
- Natural aged wood.
- Metal and stone.
- Glass.
- Leather, textiles - in upholstery of upholstered furniture.
- Plastic imitating wood, marble.
Other furniture options
You can make loft-style furniture not only from profile pipes. Of course, most owners will not want to disrupt their style in the house with products in this style, but as garden furniture, this is an excellent solution, simple and inexpensive, and at the same time the garden plot will look great.
When making interior items, you can use almost any old materials, such as water pipes or old flooring, as long as they are strong enough to withstand the load.
First of all, if you decide to do something, you need to think through everything, and it is advisable to draw approximate drawings of the product. Look at what materials you have at home. Also, do not forget about the mandatory use of new and modern materials, otherwise you simply risk switching to a retro style.
As modern elements in the loft style, you can use a wide variety of elements, because even a new steel clamp connecting the parts will look like a modern addition. Therefore, if you start furnishing your home in this style, then you have practically no restrictions. After all, even furniture made from new materials, with a few old elements, will also belong to the loft style.
If you go shopping, especially those that offer unique designer items, your impression of the prices will not be the most pleasant. After all, this type of furniture costs an order of magnitude more than the standard options that are mass-produced in factories. But if you take a closer look, you can easily make most of these types of furniture yourself, since they do not have a complex design. This is where the standard question arises: “Why pay more?”
This is quite enough to think about making your own interior items and furniture. After all, you only need to have desire and a little imagination, and you can always see what and how to do on our website.
Shelf and coffee table: make quickly and cheaply!
Do-it-yourself racks and open shelves will fit perfectly into the interior. The thin metal frame of the rack, painted black, looks beautiful. It is this color that makes it almost invisible. The shelves are made of solid pine and oak. To highlight the structure of the wood, treat the shelves with a tinting compound. Fill the shelves with books, photo frames, vases and designer accessories.
Assembling the table frame
Loft-style furniture in stores is expensive. The price of a rectangular coffee table with a metal frame is high.
Screw on the corner brackets for the legs
To make it yourself you only need to take two boards of the required size, four bars or metal pipes for the legs, screws, varnish, and stain. You can make a tabletop from a pallet. Screw it to the base of the wheel and the table is ready.
Attaching the table legs to the base
Paint or stain and then varnish
Don’t limit the flight of your imagination, feel free to combine incongruous things, mixing styles and colors. Everything is possible in Loft, and you need to take advantage of it!
Ready-made coffee table in the interior
How to make a bookshelf in a loft style
Step-by-step instructions for making a wooden shelving unit in a loft style:
- The first step is to make a drawing of the future piece of furniture.
- According to the created drawing, cut out wooden blocks for the crossbars and racks.
- Lay out all the cut out posts on a flat floor surface and connect them to the cut out cross members using an electric screwdriver or hammer. By the way, it must be said that self-tapping screws are much more reliable.
- Using special ready-made metal plates, fix the support frames to the wall surface.
- Cut out the required shelves from the OSB board.
- Attach the made shelves to the manufactured shelving frame and secure with self-tapping screws or nails.
Photo gallery of loft-style furniture in the interior of different rooms and spaces:
Making a loft chair from a metal profile
Traditional furniture materials are wood and its synthetic analogues. But in the loft style, metal is widely used, including in the form of profile pipes. It is already harder to make such furniture with your own hands.
There are not enough pictures and furniture catalogues, you will need drawings in accordance with which blanks of the required sizes are cut out of pipes. Drilling tools and a welding machine are required to connect the structure. That is, they first make blanks from pipes, process the cuts so that there are no burrs, make the necessary holes using a drill, then bend the parts for the chair frame.
Some of the elements at this stage are fixed by welding, the remaining parts are fastened with bolts. The seat is made of wood, sometimes covered with textiles. These works are performed separately. If desired, the metal elements of the structure can be painted.
Photos in the interior
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A special characteristic that loft chairs have is their originality of design, creative shape, texture and combination of several types of materials.
It is easier to choose a model in this style by following simple recommendations: consider the color, decorative elements of the product, its functionality and location. Base of building materials in Krasnodar.
